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Delivering on A Promise of Justice
Posted by on March 29, 2012 at 12:07 PM EDTAs a lawyer, Rob Williams is welll versed in the art of fighting for justice. As director of the Migrant Farmworker Justice Project he stands in the gap for farmworkers threatened by obstacles to their success and fair treatment.
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A Heart for the Homeless
Posted by on March 29, 2012 at 12:01 PM EDTIn memory of her son and in fulfillment of the purpose predestined for her own life, Rev. Eve Nunez touches the lives and meets the needs of homeless Americans through her Help 4 Kidz program.
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Coaching for Success: A Winning Approach
Posted by on March 22, 2012 at 1:12 PM EDTAs the founding president of the UCLA chapter of Coaching Corps, Cameron Hajialiakbar works to train and place volunteer coaches in after-school programs serving girls and boys in low-income communities to bridge the ever-growing access gap between those that have and those that don’t have access to quality youth sports programming.
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Feeding the Body and Mind
Posted by on March 13, 2012 at 8:37 AM EDTShayla Price, this week's "Woman Working to Do Good," shares her enthusiasm for helping Americans find scholarships and put food on the table.
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Working with Oxfam to Fight Hunger Around the World
Posted by on March 8, 2012 at 11:58 AM EDTWe can only win the fight against hunger, both at home and abroad, by empowering women to be true agents of change.
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A Voice for Change
Posted by on February 29, 2012 at 2:11 PM EDTThis edition of "Women Working to Do Good" highlights Erica Ngoenha, a recent college graduate advocating to raise awareness for the necessity of foreign aid.
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Rewarding Inventors Who Work to Solve Global Challenges
Posted by on February 8, 2012 at 11:22 AM EDTToday at the White House, United States Patent & Trademark Office Director Dave Kappos launched the Patents for Humanity pilot program, which creates business incentives for patent holders to engage in humanitarian issues.
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Documenting and Educating Future Generations
Posted by on January 31, 2012 at 12:15 PM EDTAbdi Roble is the Founder and the Executive Director for the Somali Documentary Project, a nonprofit dedicated to archive the Somali Diaspora worldwide, educate the hosting communities and advocate for the plight of the refugees.
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Unlocking the Diaspora’s Potential, One Woman At A Time
Posted by on January 31, 2012 at 11:15 AM EDTSemhar Araia uncovers the success, resilience and tremendous opportunity the women from the Horn of Africa posess, through founding and working with the Diaspora African Women's Network (DAWN).
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Education as a Key to Eradicating Poverty
Posted by on January 31, 2012 at 10:41 AM EDTNini Legesse dreams of eliminating poverty through education and works to make that vision a reality through Wegene Ethiopian Foundation (WEF), a non-profit that she founded, to support impoverished families and enrolled homeless children in schools.
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